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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.
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It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?
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It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
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The most effective coquetry is innocence.
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.
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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
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Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
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It is for truth that God created genius.
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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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